The study will involve three months of drug treatment with clinical measures, blood tests and spinal fluid tests and it is hoped that this will be the first step in the development of a new Parkinson’s treatment.

The study is looking to recruit 20 patients with newly diagnosed, untreated Parkinson’s or a known genetic form of Parkinson’s (e.g. a parkin, PINK1 or LRRK2 gene change) that will most likely have been identified by an NHS gene test.

The treatment is being developed by Edison Pharmaceuticals and was initially aimed at children with mitochondrial disease (problems with energy production within cells) and research suggests that similar mechanisms may occur in some patients with Parkinson’s.

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